alex_79 Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 2 hours ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: the distance is displayed after the race Nice! It turned out quite an addicting game, even when played alone against the AI. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 12 hours ago, alex_79 said: It turned out quite an addicting game, even when played alone against the AI. Thanks. Actually I am surprised too how well the rather simple AI works. And since I currently have to play (and test!) alone all the time, this would be totally boring without AI. Next planned change is high score distance recording (for human players only). So that you can challenge yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dionoid Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 (edited) Wow, this game is progressing fast!! I just tried it out, and the gameplay is really good (= IMO simple but addictive). This is a really nice casual party/mini game. When playing as single player, it would be nice if there were "stages". E.g. for each race/stage you would need to finish in the top-3 to go to the next stage, in which the A.I. cars are a bit harder to beat. Anyway, it's a fun game with refreshing gameplay! Edited March 9, 2021 by Dionoid 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 15 minutes ago, Dionoid said: Wow, this game is progressing fast!! I just tried it out, and the gameplay is really good (= IMO simple but addictive). This is a really nice casual party/mini game. When playing as single player, it would be nice if there were "stages". E.g. for each race you would need to finish in the top-3 to go the the next stage, in which the A.I. cars are a bit harder harder to beat. Anyway, it's a fun game with refreshing gameplay! Thanks. Currently I am focusing on the party game mode, because I plan to submit the game to the Revision Demo Party Game competition. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 (edited) ZeroPage Homebrew is playing an EXCLUSIVE WIP UPDATE to VROOM! on today's (Tue Mar 9, 2021) stream LIVE on Twitch at 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 2AM GMT! Hope everyone can watch! ZPH Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Games: Vroom! (2021 Exclusive WIP Update) by Thomas Jentzsch @Thomas Jentzsch Local Hero II (2021 Exclusive WIP Update) by Mike Indovina @satyrsfaction Knight Guy in Low Res World: Castle Days (2021 WIP Update) by Vladimir Zuñiga @vhzc (SET VIDEO TO 1080P60 FOR FULL QUALITY) Edited March 18, 2021 by ZeroPage Homebrew 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted March 9, 2021 Author Share Posted March 9, 2021 Looking forward to your play testing. I suppose you can win the normal (yellow) variations, but I doubt you can do the same in hard mode. Else I have to tweak the AI. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) AI worked well during the show. Those who watched the show will know this already, for the (few) others: I am planning to join the Game Competition at the Revision 2021 Demo Party (happening Eastern, live on Twitch). I don't expect any fame and glory, but since VROOM! is designed as a party game, I thought it would fit well into that demo party. Of course it would work much better, if this year's party wouldn't have to be completely virtual, but maybe people can imagine how it would be. Following their rules, I must not release my work to public before. Therefore, until then there will be no more public releases (sorry). Instead I will continue development and testing with only very few people in private. Of course this will change back to normal immediately after the show. Nevertheless any feed back from everyone else is of course still more than welcome. Edited March 10, 2021 by Thomas Jentzsch 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) On 3/5/2021 at 12:06 AM, sramirez2008 said: Would be cool if a photo finish (something akin to instant replay in Food Fight) could be incorporated.. You mean replay the last seconds before the finish line? That won't work due to RAM memory constraints, sorry. Edited March 10, 2021 by Thomas Jentzsch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 3 hours ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: You mean replay the last seconds before the finish line? That won't work due to RAM memory constraints, sorry. During the race the optical distances are quite small, maybe it is easier to make them bigger to the end of the race? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 28 minutes ago, Al_Nafuur said: During the race the optical distances are quite small, maybe it is easier to make them bigger to the end of the race? They increase the longer the race lasts. So at the end of a 90 seconds race they are 3x timer larger than in a 30 seconds race. Should I make them equal for a three race lengths? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 17 minutes ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: They increase the longer the race lasts. So at the end of a 90 seconds race they are 3x timer larger than in a 30 seconds race. Because of my short attention span I mostly play the 30 seconds race ? 27 minutes ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: Should I make them equal for a three race lengths? ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 @alex_79 I plan to allow putting the SaveKey into the right port. So that would be just 2 or 4(6) human players. But now (at least in emulation) the game's auto detection fails and the right port is still detected as QuadTari. Do you know what is wrong here? Is that a problem with Stella or with the auto detection code? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_79 Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) You need to additionally check pin 9 of the right port (INPT3). A Savekey/Atarivox has no connection to the paddle lines (pins 5 and 9, that is INPT2 and INPT3 for the right port). So, a few frames after clearing VBLANK D7 you have: 1 - both INPT2 and INPT3 negative (bit 7 set), if you have a set of paddles directly plugged in the right port. 2 - INPT2 positive and INPT3 negative, if you have a QuadTari. 3 - both INPT2 and INPT3 positive, if you have a Savekey/AtariVox directly plugged in the right port. Not relevant for this game, but a standard joystick would fall in case (3). A genesis pad would be a case (1), I think. Edited March 10, 2021 by alex_79 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_79 Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 I edited my previous post, as I got the pins backwards for case 2... It should be correct now, I hope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insertclevernamehere Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 On 3/9/2021 at 2:43 PM, ZeroPage Homebrew said: ZeroPage Homebrew is playing an EXCLUSIVE WIP UPDATE to VROOM! on today's (Tue Mar 9, 2021) stream LIVE on Twitch at 6PM PT | 9PM ET | 2AM GMT! Hope everyone can watch! ZPH Twitch Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ Games: Vroom! (2021 Exclusive WIP Update) by Thomas Jentzsch @Thomas Jentzsch Local Hero II (2021 Exclusive WIP Update) by Mike Indovina @satyrsfaction Knight Guy in Low Res World: Castle Days (2021 WIP Update) by Vladimir Zuñiga @vhzc How long before these live shows get uploaded to ZPH? There's no trace of it at the time of typing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 1 minute ago, insertclevernamehere said: How long before these live shows get uploaded to ZPH? There's no trace of it at the time of typing this. I'm able to post to YouTube it 24 hours after it airs on Twitch. You can watch it right now on Twitch but I generally find the quality better through YouTube. It will be available on ZPH's YouTube channel at 6PM PT/9PM ET. ? - James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insertclevernamehere Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 18 minutes ago, ZeroPage Homebrew said: I'm able to post to YouTube it 24 hours after it airs on Twitch. You can watch it right now on Twitch but I generally find the quality better through YouTube. It will be available on ZPH's YouTube channel at 6PM PT/9PM ET. ? - James Thanks. I found it on Twitch after I posted. I was just looking on YouTube before. Good to know for the upcoming Circus Convoy reveal. Very excited for that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 On 3/10/2021 at 6:31 PM, alex_79 said: You need to additionally check pin 9 of the right port (INPT3). A Savekey/Atarivox has no connection to the paddle lines (pins 5 and 9, that is INPT2 and INPT3 for the right port). So, a few frames after clearing VBLANK D7 you have: 1 - both INPT2 and INPT3 negative (bit 7 set), if you have a set of paddles directly plugged in the right port. 2 - INPT2 positive and INPT3 negative, if you have a QuadTari. 3 - both INPT2 and INPT3 positive, if you have a Savekey/AtariVox directly plugged in the right port. Not relevant for this game, but a standard joystick would fall in case (3). A genesis pad would be a case (1), I think. How about INPT2 negative and INPT3 positive? Can that happen in theory or with a certain controller? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_79 Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: How about INPT2 negative and INPT3 positive? Can that happen in theory or with a certain controller? It would happen with a Sears Video Arcade II or Coleco Gemini controller, as they only have one paddle pot on INPT0/INPT2. (But there wouldn't be much point in using them with this game, as the fire buttons are wired to pin 6 - INPT4/INPT5 ) and likely with the Hyperkin Ranger too. And can also happen with a broken paddle set (broken pot or cable). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 OK, then I can optimize my code and XOR the bits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted April 1, 2021 Author Share Posted April 1, 2021 Reminder: Revision 2021 will happen this weekend. And VROOM! will be participating in the Game competition. The schedule can be found here. To get an idea what is happening, have a look at the Meteoriks (Demoscene Oscar's) nominations for 2020. Most of these have YouTube links. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted April 4, 2021 Author Share Posted April 4, 2021 After the Revision compo has run, I am allowed to upload my latest version (see 1st post). And for completeness, I also added the archive I submitted to Revision here. Unfortunately the audio was off by about 5 seconds only for my entry. No idea why. Anyway, this was fun to watch live and get some reactions from the people watching too. BTW: Twitch has permanently banned the Revision party stream without warning right in the middle of a compo yesterday. Fortunately the CCC came to help immediately and there was only a ~30 minutes break. The reason for the ban are utterly ridiculous. There was some minor nudity, which in my book is completely harmless. Anyway, I do not want to get into politics here (after all the demoscene is officially accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in several countries, including Germany), but I am thinking about my private consequences regarding Twitch and global corporation censorship in general. Vroom! (JTZ).zip 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 10 minutes ago, Thomas Jentzsch said: After the Revision compo has run, I am allowed to upload my latest version (see 1st post). And for completeness, I also added the archive I submitted to Revision here. Unfortunately the audio was off by about 5 seconds only for my entry. No idea why. Anyway, this was fun to watch live and get some reactions from the people watching too. Good luck in the competition Thomas! That sucks about the audio sync. ? - James 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted April 4, 2021 Author Share Posted April 4, 2021 Revision Game compo link here (with in sync audio). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted April 5, 2021 Author Share Posted April 5, 2021 5/6, well I had hoped for 4th. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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